Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!yale!cmcl2!nrl-cmf!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!BARILVM.BITNET!HANK From: HANK@BARILVM.BITNET (Henry Nussbacher) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip Subject: Re: ISN Message-ID: <8803212314.AA09123@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> Date: 20 Mar 88 05:15:14 GMT References: Sender: usenet@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 11 >If it is acting as a router it should use the TTL field in the IP >header. It seems, from your message, that another field may be used >possibly from a REB-REB protocol. It is not acting as a router. It is a bridge which has adopted "router concepts" at the level II. It does not look at the protocol so it can't possibly use TTL. It uses its own concept of stopping packets from travelling in the network forever, all within the definition of 803.2 D - Management specs. Hank